The Scheme painted a stereotypical picture, but didn't balance that out

DAVID Ross, architect and design director at Keppie, is standing on a Kilmarnock street gesturing towards a patch of barren wasteland.

Viewers of BBC 1 fly-on-the-wall documentary The Scheme may recognise it as the location where the Ardbeg Community Centre, which the Cree family fought so hard – and failed – to save, once stood.

The crumbling building in the heart of the Onthank and Knockinlaw estates has since been demolished. But like a phoenix from the ashes, new hope will soon rise out of the derelict space.

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